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In truth, if that great prince, Antiochus the Great the
king of Asia, who, after he had been conquered by Scipio, was ordered to
consider Mount Taurus as the boundary of his dominions, and was deprived of
all this Asia which is now a province of our own,—if he was
accustomed to say that he had been kindly treated by the Roman
people, because be had been released by them from the care of an overgrown
empire, and was now at liberty to enjoy a kingdom of moderate extent,
Deiotarus can comfort himself much more easily. For Antiochus had suffered a
chastisement for his insanity, my client only for an error. You, O Caesar,
gave everything to Deiotarus when you gave him and his son the title of
King; and as long as he is allowed to retain and preserve this title, he
does not think that the kindness of the Roman people is at all diminished,
or that the senate has come to any unfavourable decision respecting him. He
preserves a great and lofty spirit, and will never succumb to his enemies,
nor even to fortune.

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